This article reviews theoretically-grounded empirical studies on committees in the European Union, by focusing on research published from the late 1990s onwards. The aim is to report on the state of the art and to shed ...

This article examines the impacts that the embrace of diversity talk has had on identity and ethnic politics in Turkey that has evolved toward a relative and selective recognition. Based on the analysis of the cases of the ...

The provision of financial incentives to local communities by energy developers has attracted cynicism across many localities, with some suggesting such community benefits are akin to ‘bribery.’ The current study used an ...

A Nuffied Foundation funded project to investigate the benefits and disadvantages of a European-style community of property regime for married and cohabiting couples, as compared with the system of separate property which ...

The House of Lords decision in Miller v Miller; McFarlane v McFarlane [2006] UKHL 24 edges us closer to a community of property approach to ancillary relief on divorce where assets exceed needs.
Drawing on an empirical ...

We investigate the levels of horse-race coverage in 160 different European print and broadcast outlets in 27 different countries at three different points in time. We match information on outlets’ content to survey-based ...

Background
Although both very preterm (VP) and small for gestational age (SGA) births are suggested to increase the likelihood of childhood emotional problems, there has been a lack of research comparing these ...

Complexity theories have in common perspectives that challenge linear methodologies and views of causality, but in educational research, relatively little has been written explicitly exploring the implications of complexity ...

The mineral, organic and elemental composition of medicine clays from three shrines in the Tong Hills in northern Ghana (Gbankil, Kusanaab, and Yaane) are assessed to ascertain what additives they might contain and the ...

Honeyball, Simon(University College of Wales, Department of Law, 2005)

The concept of 'employment' appears in various contexts in English law. However, the word 'employment' is defined in a variety of ways depending on which context is in point. This gives rise to the question as to whether ...

In a recent paper about the role of the theoretical framework in educational research (Troudi, 2010) I addressed the nature of this framework and how it is used to state the researchers’ view of the theories that inform ...

Literacy is traditionally narrowly conceptualised as a set of skills related to accessing and generating written or printed text. For children designated as having severe learning difficulties, who are unlikely to develop ...

This paper reports on an investigation of L1 English teachers’ conceptual and evaluative beliefs about teaching grammar, one strand of a larger Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded investigation into the ...

This paper will present a theoretical analysis of research on metalinguistic understanding, illustrating how current research does not yet adequately address metalinguistic development in writing. Existing research on ...

This conceptual paper examines the issues in the use of term ‘special educational
needs’ (SEN) in England over the last 40 years and from this identifies what kind of
additional needs principles are required for educational ...

Current discussions on Religious Education (RE), both in Germany and England, focus on the quality of teaching and the professionality of teachers, but neglect the historical and institutional process of professionalization ...

Recent initiatives in England have promoted education for citizenship, including teaching about topical global issues, for both primary and secondary pupils. Little is known, however, of primary children’s interest in this ...